OK, right, we were talking about two different things. Sorry if this has
caused confusion. I was talking about dynamic data being indexable by
search engines. You were talking about search engine optimization for
static content (sorry again if I'm still misunderstanding).
I guess I never think about search engine optimization in terms other
than how to get your dynamic content indexed by search engines. If I
have a restaurant review website I want google to index every review
that my users write. I don't know what you call this is if doesn't count
as "search engine optimization," but I guess that's not what the term
means.
If I run a restaurant review website I don't want to show up for someone
searching "restaurant reviews". I want to show up for someone searching
"El Farolito burritos". And there's no way I can optimize static content
with restaurant names or with what users are going to write. But I guess
that's not SEO, my bad.
John Dowdell wrote:
I'm out of this conversation, sorry... if I say "start with the search
terms you're trying to be found on" and don't get acknowledgment, I'll
just bow out now.
(That restaurant sample applet, I have no idea if it's data-fed text or
internal text, and don't see mentions of E Coli myself, and that's not
the common type of things people are looking for with search engine
optimization. Undefined terms make the convo go 'round.)
Recap:
> Work in Adobe Flex produces SWF files. Text within SWF files can be
> found and used by the search engines (contrary to widespread myth).
Example:
>
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22contrary+evidence%22+filetype%3Aswf
<http://www.google.com/search?q=%22contrary+evidence%22+filetype%3Aswf>
>
> If your content includes material fed in via database, then the search
> engine would not usually see that you use those words.
>
> As with all SEO tasks, you'd first figure what search terms you have a
> chance to compete on (eg, you will never appear on the first page of
> results for search terms like "buy flowers online"). Then set up your
> HTML hosting page with TITLE, URL, metadata and reinforcement of the
> targeted text terms. Then make sure you get plenty of inbound links
from
> authoritative sources, preferably with your targeted search terms as
> anchor text.
jd
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